From: Marko Mäkelä (marko.makela_at_hut.fi)
Date: 2004-06-29 22:25:21
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 08:34:34PM +0200, Groepaz wrote:
> On Monday 28 June 2004 18:34, William Levak wrote:
>
> > > on some PETs its possible to kill the monitor with a POKE (by setting
> > > invalid video timing or sth) though :)
> >
> > That's also nonsense, but we have had this discussion before.
>
> it is? strange enough there are warnings all over the place, and i know
> atleast one case where it actually happened by accident.
Please have a look at the message
http://www.softwolves.pp.se/misc/arkiv/cbm-hackers/1/1520.html and the
discussions around that time (April 1999). Do you have first-hand experience
of the "smoke poke" in action?
Remember, on the PET, the horizontal and vertical sync rates are fixed.
On the VDC (C128) or the TED (264 series), you could probably fry some
monitor or TV by modifying the timings. My 14" Sony is still alive even
after some torturing with NTSC signals. (It whistled a little but showed
a black&white picture.)
Marko
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